The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-23

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dred children attend the school, and twenty or
thirty adults meet in one Of the rooms to study
book keeping and listen to lectures on various
scientific topics But these educational advan-
tages are not appreciated by any large proportion
OF the girs, and the library attendant says the
number of readers is diminishing. Some OF
them take books out regularly, and one has such
an lnsatible appetite for knowledge that she
reads twenty every month. She is exceptional.
The typical factory girl of Jersey City Is not q
bookworm, does not wear blue glasses and IL
not given to talking about culture. She wears her
hair banged over her eyes, her retrousse nose is
t:p-tiited saucily, she can look q wooden Indian
out of fcountenance, and handy the catch-words
and slang or the day with corner
full of young fellows across the widest
street in the city. If she has only herself to
support, her attire is apt to be more remarkable
for gaudiness than for good taste, and she wears
a tremendous yellow feather and high blue hat.
Half dozen of her returning from work will
make more noise than flock of guinea-hens.
When she is amused she shouts and shrieks with
laughter, and it doesn't require much to excite
her visibility after whole day of steady work
and enforced quiet in the shop. No sidewalk is
wide enough for her when she is skylarking, and
other people have to get out of the way, or be
bounced against She knows the policeman at
the factory door, and stops to fool with him and
exchange chaf As she leaps down the steps IN
response to q choi Us of "come on from group
at the corner, she exercises the woman's natural
prerogative, and gets in the last word with some
pert rejoinder exultantly shouted over her
shoulder at the grinning policeman. That Is the
typical factory girl, but there is quite large
class OF young women who work in factories, and
maintain their reserve and duletness of deport
ment Many of them by the exercise of jude
ment and good taste. dress we'll and look stylish
without extravaganza. When their work is done
they do not loiter about in groups, but go quietly
home or to the library and the street they
would be taken for the daughters of wen-to-dt
parents"
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The head on the girl in question was not biz
enough to hold the brain which she proved to
possess, for it was femininely SMALL and had
delcately pretty face on its front, and delight
full mass of nut-brown hair on top Of it. At the
apex, too, when she entered the portal of the
theatar, was the incest sort of bonnet. com
posed of lace and flowers, and excellently suita
BILE in size shape and colors to the creature wh
wore il. Invent in right behind her, and was sstz
miring her intensely She reached the inner
vestibule, after passing the ticket taker. The,s
she reached quickly up to her head. deity re
moved the bonnet. and brought it down in front
l expected to see her stop at the window provic -
ed for the temporary stowaee of millinery. since.
the outbreak OF the anthat movement at the
heaters, but she did not and gracefully tripped
along with the throng into the auditorium. Was
she going to hold the bonnet in her hands
through the entertainment No, no. She had
solved the vexed question of theatrical head
gear by strange device On getting view of
her frontal side, saw that the whilom bonnet
had become corsage bouquet, adjusted on her
breast. 1t served this purpose quite as hand.
somely as it had the other Nobody would have
guessed that the flowers were not real. or that
the thing had any other use.
Girls of education and refinement who are
| compelled to their own living. now do il
often as type writer's. The working of the curl
GUS machines is light, somewhat intellectual and
| commands good wages for thoroughly compey-
tent operator. It was bright maiden who went
down town, of morning, to take such posi-
tion in an eminent oldlawyers Office and who re-
turned at night smiling between her pouts of
disappointment 80 he received me kindly
she said, remarked dencouragingly that he didn't
doubt would get along right well. and added
that, as was something of an expert at the ma
/ chine, while he had previously used short
| hand writer as an amenuensis / would likely
beat him at it. Then l sat down at the type
| writer, and be, as solemn and weighty as seven
| judges rolled into one, began to dictate legal
document. Dc you know that there is a small
bell in the apparatus, which rings just FIVE let
ters before the end of line is reached in order
| to warn the writer that she must calculate for
| the ending OF a word syllable? Well, my
portly employer wasn't aware of that But he
did know of the chestnut bell and ita use it
| seemed He started in to dictate and / jig
gered the machine. He began with musty.
| familiar old legal phrase, and right at the end
of the sentence came the sharp, quick ting of
the bell. He eazed at me In fxed astonishment.
| but recovered himself and went on Again the
bell sounded He arose in wrath and ponderous
| vengeance. My dear young lady, he said, worry
| impresslvely. i fear you too frivolous FOR
this work. / will not trouble you further O
course, l explain the truth to him. but
| don't think l could ever regain his confidence O.
esteem. and shall seek place elsewhere"
Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, the handsomes
member of the Astor family, has piqued fash
ionable curiosity and startled social convention
ality many times-not by anything reprehensi
BILE, but by doing things new and strange. He,
| summer equipages are the wonder of Newport
her spring and autumn field sports are striking
and her win ter stylishness of dress is often orig
inal She was to be Tom Howard's partner ir
leading the cotillion at the last Patrarchs' ball
| Rulnor had run wild as to the wardrobe which
she had brought from Paris. and expectation was
positively maniacal over the question of wha
she would wear on this occasion. It must frs
be impressed upon the reader that the leader o.
cotilion at one of these swell balls is thereby
hero, If he does it we'll. and that his partner j,
correspondingly heroine. It was natural II
| conceive, therefore, that young Mrs. Astor wouit
be gowned and jeweled beyone precedent Blu
| the culver of anticipation gave way to the Numb
ness of paralyzing amazement when she swep
into the hall Was she so resplendents Not q
all. Her dress was composed entirely Of whit
tule, the entire material FOR the garment havin
cost more than S.. and not an atom of iewelr,
was visible How was that for joke7
The great annual charity ball was the fashion
able event of the week. It was an assembling
that filled the enormous Metropolitan Opera
house with folks In good clothes. It's notabl
characteristic was that the people constitutin
, the so-caled exclusive circle confined themselve
chiefly to the boxes, as they do at opera, an
gazed down on the multitude of dancers as at
, ballet 1t was as much as to cay, I'VE are her
for charity, and we are willing 10 bengnantt
beam on the occasion. but we really couldn't m i
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